{"id":938,"date":"2014-07-27T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=938"},"modified":"2015-05-31T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T21:26:05","slug":"khufiyya-dhikr-at-the-north-mosque-%e5%8c%97%e5%af%ba-linxia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Khufiyya dhikr at the North Mosque (\u5317\u5bfa), Linxia \u00a0(2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Khufiyya dhikr at the North Mosque (\u5317\u5bfa), Linxia<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2)<\/span><\/p>\n

Recorded by Ruard Absaroka, 6.30am, 28 March 2014.<\/p>\n

These worshippers belong\u00a0 to the Khufiyya menhuan, one of the main branches of the Sufi orders that were introduced into this part of China in the late 17th<\/sup> century. The menhuan are both socio-economic and religio-political institutions which grew out of the Sufi schools established by followers of early saintly leaders. The Central Asian Sufi Naqshbandi order, founded by Bahar al\u2019Din Naqshband (d. 1389), is represented in Linxia by two menhuan: the Jahriyya and Khufiyya.\u00a0 More than twenty branches of the Khufiyya order are active across China today, especially in the northwest.\u00a0 The Huasi branch of the Khufiyya menhuan was established by Ma Laichi, who travelled widely in Middle East, and whose tomb lies in Linxia.<\/p>\n

As Jonathan Lipman\u2019s keynote lecture \u201cHead-wagging and Obscene Music\u201d argues (see conference podcast), the Khufiyya were known for performing a silent form of dhikr, and they successfully led the Qing administration to prosecute the rival Jahriyya for the \u201cunorthodox\u201d nature of their loud dhikr. However, in this clip, we see members of the Khufiyya order performing a distinctly loud and powerful dhikr, clearly accompanied by the head movements once perjoratively described as \u201chead wagging\u201d which form a part of their spiritual practice.<\/p>\n